From the world’s most sophisticated European healthcare systems to the world's largest spending healthcare system in the US, every country affected by Corona pandemic is struggling to control it.

In a Crisis, there are many unknown variables and hence the system always fights it with a reactive approach. We go from handling one crisis to another. It is a sort of fire fighting.

What healthcare needs to fight Corona is a system's approach. DayToDay is an acute care management company which has brought in system thinking into tertiary healthcare.

We have redefined the approach of care management of complex surgical care in both pre and post-operative period and also in their rehabilitation phase.

When we used this same systems approach to Corona pandemic we found two major issues impacting the management of Covid-19 cases:1. The vulnerability of healthcare workforce to get infected by exposure to Covid-19 2. And patients with other diseases who also become susceptible to Covid-19

After studying the healthcare system response of various countries like Italy, Spain, Germany, UK and Korea we found that 20 per cent of infected patients are healthcare workers and this leads to a compound effect where these people can infect other patients and hence the number of patients increases while the healthcare workforce decrease. This is a double whammy to healthcare system.

In Delhi, a mohalla clinic doctor got infected after he treated a Covid-19 patient. By the time he was diagnosed he had treated 1000 patients in his clinic. These patients become susceptible to infection.

There was a case in Assam where a doctor self-medicated himself with anti-malarial drug HCQ tablet as prophylaxis as he was handling Covid-19 patients and then he died due to cardiac arrest

And then there is community transmission event in Nizamuddin area Delhi where 20000 people who got exposed to corona are quarantined.

If the healthcare system uses the same manual process to manage these people then there is no assurance that it will work efficiently as it is humanely impossible to track thousands of people for weeks. It will lead to a lot of gaps and deficiencies and this can spread the Covid-19 exponentially. And it also exposes the healthcare workforce who are managing Covid-19 infection.

Only about 5 per cent of Covid-19 patients need intensive care in hospitals and most of them are elderly people or would have co-morbidities like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, cancer or respiratory disease Rest all can be managed in home isolation or quarantine.

Hence, the need to keep these less complicated Covid-19 patients from other serious patients in the hospital.

It is where our DayToday Covid-19 product comes into the picture to enable healthcare system to protect their workforce and to efficiently manage the huge number of people who are quarantined or isolated.

It is completely digital with options of tracking patients signs and symptoms, the progression of their disease gives alerts when they have complications.

People who are isolated have a lot of stress and anxiety. We have incorporated positive psychology, meditation features to soothen their nerves and to keep them engaged.

In this era of WhatsApp forwards where 90 per cent of information is fake, we have evidence-based information on Covid-19 which can be accessed at the click of the button and we will keep updating it with all the latest guidelines and protocols

The healthcare system gets a dashboard from where they can track the symptoms, clinical parameters and give them advice. This helps doctors to keep track of their patients continuously and to act fact when there is a complication. It gives huge confidence to the patients that they are being taken care off and gives all the information to the govt and healthcare system to act accordingly.

We have spent lot of resources to build this ecosystem and we want to give it to government and any healthcare agency who is managing Covid-19 without any commercial considerations.

At this global humanitarian crises, it is our small contribution to humanity.

(The author is the CEO and Founder at DaytoDay HealthTM)

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